# SeekOut review (2026): is it worth $149 a month, billed yearly? > AI candidate sourcing across 1B+ profiles and your ATS Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. SeekOut is an AI recruiting platform for finding, evaluating and engaging candidates. It searches more than a billion external profiles together with the profiles already in a company's ATS, and adds applicant evaluation and AI screening. A self-serve entry plan is priced publicly; the team and full-funnel plans are quoted. - **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking - **Made by:** SeekOut - **Website:** https://www.seekout.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a price for any plan other than Sourcing Core, as the rest are custom annual quotes. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, SeekOut is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $149 per month, billed annually ($179 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of Sourcing Core, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Sourcing Core | $149 per month for 3 seats, billed annually ($179 billed monthly) | Unlimited search, 30+ filters, 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports a month, and AI multi-step campaigns. | | Sourcing | Custom | Per-seat pricing billed annually, with 750 contacts and 5,000 exports per seat a month, SSO and diversity filters. | | Sourcing + Integration | Custom | Adds ATS rediscovery, unified external and ATS search, usage reports and market intelligence. Billed annually. | | Full Recruiting Funnel | Custom | Adds inbound applicant evaluation, AI screening, agentic workflows and custom integrations. Billed annually. | Read from https://www.seekout.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SeekOut before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save $360 a year with annual billing** (Annual discount): Sourcing Core is $149 a month paid annually upfront ($1,788 a year) against $179 a month billed monthly. Source: https://www.seekout.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **AI candidate search:** Searches 1B+ external profiles and the company's ATS with AI that reads context, plus 30+ filters on the entry plan. - **Applicant evaluation and AI screening:** Scores inbound applicants, runs AI screening and flags signs of fraud. This sits in the full-funnel product. - **ATS rediscovery:** Surfaces past applicants and silver medalists already in the ATS, alongside external results. - **Outreach:** Email integration with send-on-behalf and AI multi-step campaigns, with contact credits and exports capped monthly. - **Chrome extension:** Sources and enriches profiles from any website without leaving the page. - **SeekOut MCP:** Brings SeekOut's profile search into Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Amazon Quick. ## Good for - Solo recruiters and small teams who want a published price to start - Enterprise teams that need ATS rediscovery and screening in one platform - Recruiters hiring cleared or healthcare talent, which SeekOut has dedicated pages for ## Worth knowing - Only Sourcing Core is priced publicly; every other plan is a custom, annual quote. - Sourcing Core has no SSO and no extra seats beyond its 3 included. - Only Sourcing Core offers the 14-day free trial. - Applicant evaluation and AI screening need the Full Recruiting Funnel plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. SeekOut searches over a billion profiles and your ATS, with Sourcing Core at $149 a month for 3 seats billed annually. Only that plan is priced publicly, it has no SSO, and screening of applicants needs a custom plan. - **Value for money: B.** $149 a month for 3 seats billed annually is about $50 a seat, inside the cheaper quarter of hiring tools at $74. $179 billed monthly. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial of Sourcing Core with no credit card, then nothing free. - **Features: C.** AI search, 30+ filters, contacts, exports, outreach and a Chrome extension. Applicant evaluation and AI screening need the Full Recruiting Funnel plan. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You set up search, outreach and integrations. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and Chrome extension with Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Lever and AI assistant integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SeekOut's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among hiring and applicant tracking tools - SeekOut's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 88 of the 101 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 91 of 101) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $149 a month, against a middle price of $99 for the category: 29 of the 42 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hiring ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace SeekOut you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 88 of the 101 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade. It costs $1,788 a year. - You could make: Applicant tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Workday, iCIMS and Greenhouse among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Bullhorn, Lever, Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude **Tags:** AI features, AI agents, Applicant tracking, Reports ## Alternatives - [hireEZ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hireez): AI sourcing and recruiting platform that sits on top of your ATS. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hireez-vs-seekout) - [LinkedIn Recruiter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkedin-recruiter): Candidate search and outreach across LinkedIn's member network. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkedin-recruiter-vs-seekout) - [Findem](https://toolgpa.com/tools/findem): People data platform for sourcing, with AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/findem-vs-seekout) - [Gem](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gem): AI recruiting platform: sourcing, CRM, ATS, scheduling, analytics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gem-vs-seekout) - [Juicebox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/juicebox): AI recruiting platform for sourcing and outreach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/juicebox-vs-seekout) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.seekout.com/pricing/ - https://www.seekout.com/ - https://www.seekout.com/partners Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/seekout Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).